Today I Vote Israel doubled their efforts to reach potential GOP supporters by hosting two events with Republican hotshots, Matt Brooks, the president of the Republican Jewish Coalition and Ari Fleischer, a former Bush administration press officer. The first event was by invitation only for pro-Israel bloggers, and the second was open to the public. But I Vote Israel’s official Twitter handle Tweeted updates throughout the day, albeit in the form of digs at Obama. “When it comes to dealing with the Arab world, showing strength is an asset. @BarackObama failed to deliver.” And “.@BarackObama wants to be neutral with regard to Israel, not to stand by Israel and do what’s right.” Even one of the hashtags for the event was a nod to the Republican party, #ivoteRJC, short for: I vote Republican Jewish Coalition.

Today’s Brooks and Fleischer public lecture for I Vote Israel.

In 2007, Netanyahu was Finance Minister and met with Governor Romney and got back together for one of the first time since Boston Consulting Group. They genuinely and respect each other. You won’t have an open mic situation like there was between Obama and Sarkozy about Netanyahu. Chemistry is much warmer than it is between Netanyahu and Obama.

Ari Fleischer says that if Obama wins, Israel is going to suffer regardless of how Jews and American Israelis vote. Cites AIPAC Jerusalem 2008, condemnation of Israel’s housing policy and open mic incident.

And both speakers used Iran to tug at the audience’s fear strings:

Matt Brooks says leaking of intelligence information on cyberattacks on Iran by the US is unprecedented, and think about the ramifications that has on any US allies. On a project of that caliber, there are no more than 10-12 people who have access to that information, and yet it was exposed by the US. Will other allies trust the US after this? The only people that win because of that are the Iranians.

Ari Fleischer says that ‘two state solution’ is just a phrase now, and a ‘Palestinian state’ now would not be a peaceful state. It’s Obama policy that Israeli ‘settlement freeze’ a precondition, and in a second Obama term that would only get worse.

But I Vote Israel is not lamenting Gore’s marginal loss due to the dereliction of “Floridian-Israelis.” On the contrary they see tight elections as an opportunity to push Israel to the center of the nation’s debate.

“We do have an agenda, and we are proud of it [but] our legal status does not allow us to endorse a specific candidate – for Congress or President.” said Aron Shaviv, a political strategist hired by I Vote Israel to investigate the party affiliations of Americans in Israel, in an op-ed for the Times of Israel. Shaviv’s research found that Romney has twice as many supporters in Israel than Obama, making the potential Republican votes tucked away in the Jewish state equal to 100,000. And with American Jews comprising around 3% of the electorate, or just fewer than 3 million voters, 100,000 could mean the difference between a Republican signing Israel’s $3 billion aid check, or a Democrat.

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” Voting should be left to real Americans” Now that was a true statement. Talk about some foreign influence. Ari Fleisher should be in prison for being part of the team who outed CIA under cover agent Valerie Plame. What a deal for Ari instead of being in prison he is still poisoning the U.S. elections. Such a patriot

IN EARLY JULY, FLEISCHER READ MEMO ABOUT PLAME ON AIR FORCE ONE: “On the flight to Africa, Fleischer was seen perusing the State Department memo on Wilson and his wife, according to a former administration official who was also on the trip.” [Bloomberg, 7/18/05]

FLEISCHER TOLD GRAND JURY HE NEVER SAW THE MEMO: “Mr. Fleischer told the grand jury that he never saw the document, a person familiar with the testimony said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the prosecutor’s admonitions about not disclosing what is said to the grand jury.” [New York Times, 7/23/05]

FLEISCHER AMONG FIRST GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO CRITICIZE WILSON: Newsday reported, “In the subpoenaed July 12 [2003] transcript of a briefing in Nigeria, then-press secretary Ari Fleischer called Wilson a “lower-level official” and said Wilson had made flawed and incomplete statements.” The transcript of the briefing was pulled from the White House site but has since been restored. [Newsday, 3/6/04; White House, 7/12/03]

FLEISCHER TALKED TO NOVAK ONE DAY AFTER HIS COLUMN WAS PUBLISHED: Fleischer’s “telephone log showed a call on the day after Mr. Wilson’s article appeared from Mr. Novak, the columnist who, on July 14, 2003, was the first to report Ms. Wilson’s identity.” [New York Times, 7/23/05]

FLEISCHER INTERVIEWED BY FBI ABOUT LEAK: [Washington Post, 2/10/04]

FLEISCHER A FOCUS OF FITZGERALD INVESTIGATION: “‘Ari’s name keeps popping up,’ said one source familiar with special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s probe. Another source close to the probe added there is renewed interest in Fleischer, ‘based on Fitzgerald’s questions.’” [New York Daily News, 7/15/05]”

Quite amazing. The Israeli firsters are becoming more and more brazen. It was not enough that they sucked us into the Lebanon civil war in 1982 or the war in Iraq in 2003. Now they are trying to push us into voting for Romney who has basically announced his desire to follow Israel into war against Iran.

Hopefully, one of these days the American people will come to their senses, even more hopefully not before it is too late.

The US zios sure aren’t making any effort to hide their fifth column activities and subversion of America are they? They are pulling out the stops in this election.
Zionist control of the US is way out in the open and heading down the stretch toward a climax.

Who would have ever believed the US could be taken over and subverted like this?……seriously…….who would have believed it was possible for a minority group of foreign loyalty to turn 90% of our so called US representatives into, in the absolute true sense of the word– traitors — and to make obedience to a foreign country the ‘hallmark’ of America and to make loyalty to another country acceptable?

Sometimes I have to stop and pinch myself to make sure this isn’t a nightmare.
I tell you though, If Americans ever do find out exactly what has and is going on and the true extent of it, if they ever even know half of what we know….there will such a murderous rage in the public that all the King’s horses and all the King’s men won’t be able to contain it.

All the while, the Republicans are intensely vote caging US citizens who actually
reside here in the US, with their ostensible obsession with voter fraud (which has
been shown to be microscopic where actual studies have been done). Inquiring
minds would wonder at the potential for voter fraud in solicited absentee ballots
from a foreign country. This combined with the Citizens United decision, wherein
foreign countries or those who prioritize the interests of a foreign country above those of the US can anonymously contribute enormous sums of money, has the capabililty to be a significant game changer. Especially, when one combines the documented problems with our voting machines which are easily susceptible to hacking and wherein in many states there is no availability of hard copy tracking.

Finally, the numbers for these voters have the absolute possibility, in targeted Congressional and Senate elections, of changing the outcome. Thus, they can substantially change the composition of the House and Senate by weigning in on
closely fought elections. This may well be a substantial trigger for considerable
anger among the electorate since these elections are very much “close to home”.
Think of voters from another country substantially changing the election outcome
for a particular Congressional district or Senate race.

No one cares about five million Jews at least three million of whom are going to vote for Obama regardless. We’re talking 100k votes changing — max.

The Republican pitch on Israel is going to be aimed at the Evangelicals. Romney’s going to talk about how he sees Israel as a fulfillment of Biblical prophesy, etc. That’s the group he’s going want to energize. Make ‘em realize Mormons love Israel too.

I have the feeling that “love will tear us apart” will be the theme tune of Romney’s campaign

You cry out in your sleep,
All my failings exposed.
And there’s a taste in my mouth,
As desperation takes hold.
Just that something so good
Just can’t function no more.
But love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.

A lot of Evangelicals will see him as a mormon regardless of what he says about christian biblical prophesy.

Mormon prophesy says the Messiah will land west of the Missouri. So those Jews in Erez Israel are in the wrong place.

“When it comes to dealing with the Arab world, showing strength is an asset. @BarackObama failed to deliver.”

Somewhat ironic, really. I distinctly recall a rather lavish spread of assassinations — and we were certainly forward in Libya.

Let me guess. He should bomb someone. That is to say, really bomb ‘em. Would a thousand fatalities be sufficient, or was it something more ambitious the good folks had in mind?

As it happens, I do agree that Barack is very weak. However, the irony deepens when I point out I would regard any such measure as merely further evidence of his weakness. It certainly wouldn’t be proof of ‘strength.’

Let me guess. He should bomb someone. That is to say, really bomb ‘em. Would a thousand fatalities be sufficient, or was it something more ambitious the good folks had in mind?

Colin, that’s not quite the reason.

Through the scope of traditional colonial — Including Zionist — thinking, they view Islam and Arabs in the Middle East as primitive degenerates. Those savages.

Such rhetoric has long been voiced since the early days of Zionism in Palestine (Early 1900s).

Ben-Gurion, for example, often said that Arabs only understand the language of force. It’s as though Arabs and Moslems are beasts with whom one cannot speak or reason, you see? That’s the depraved rationale.

Wait, so you can make the desert bloom from your Archie Bunker recliner? Well, sheeeit, maybe the Israeli’s are onto something. American Jews move to Israel for spiritual enlightenment and brotherhood, not to just sit around and watch the tube like, well, Americans….right?

For me, the condominium-ization of the relationship between american jews and israel is one of the more repugnant injustices in the whole deal. Come to Israel, maybe just for the summer, it’s like you’ve never left the states! Who wants a second home in the ny mountains, when you can have one on the med (or, slightly inland from the med, in a wonderful little all jewish “neighborhood”). Its a theme park, a fully immersed interactive theme park where you can choose the kind of experience you want ahead of time. naive tourist, summer funner, earthy spiritualist, macho warrior, religious authoritarian, the list goes on.

Wouldnt that be something, if a bunch of people in Israel ended up being a deciding factor? that would be the perfect indictment on our political system

Crap like this is why I have officially divorced myself from the jewish community. Seriously, even though my parents consider themselves culturally Jewish, I have done everything I possibly can to distance myself from anything having to do with Jews or Judaism. I am officially a gentile, but I certainly have no problem with Jews on an individual basis. If this makes people like me and Gilad Atzmon anti-semites, so be it! I would rather be thought of as an “anti-semite” than be associated with the evil crap that the organized American Jewish community is promoting and spreading!

However, all this being said, I still can’t stomach the hatred of people like David Duke and Kevin MacDonald.

Damn it feels to be a settler. They get Israeli government subsidized housing and services (a government subsidized by the US). They get to vote in BOTH American and Israeli elections. And yet they have no responsibilities to either country, or to the land in which they live.

i would have thought participating in a terrorist act (being a settler or supporting them) would preclude you from the right to vote … and since so many black and latino communities in America are targeted with voter suppression ID laws, what photo ID do these American settlers have to show ??

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